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‘Ghost Trail’ Review: Adam Bessa Electrifies a Tense Refugee Revenge Thriller
Jonathan Millet's cat-and-mouse drama 'Ghost Trail' stars a superb Adam Bessa as a Syrian exile pursuing the man who tortured him in prison
Millet’s expertly tooled movie is far from the first to derive its moral stakes from the desire to find some measure of redress for the victims and survivors of political violence, but it is among the best to also crossbreed this familiar archetype with the urgency and topicality of the Syrian refugee crisis. But the dead-drop meetings he has with his handler Nina (Julia Franz Richter), his furtive online chats with other “agents” via a multiplayer videogame during which their avatars wander through rubble-strewn cityscapes picking off opponents, and his trawling of local refugee shelters looking for leads on a guy he claims unconvincingly is his cousin, make us understand that it is illicit and dangerous. The rest of his network is concentrated in Germany, where they believe Harfaz has gone to ground, but Hamid has followed a lead to France, and becomes increasingly convinced that his sadistic tormentor — whose face he has never seen — has assumed the identity of Sami Hamma (Tawfeek Barhom), a chemistry postgrad at the city’s university.
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